subject: Helpful Gardening Tips To Keep Deer Out Of Your Garden [print this page] The garden can serve as a peaceful retreat or a source of stress, depending on whether it has been invaded by hungry four-footed creatures. Gardens contain a delectable array of plants and vegetables for deer to enjoy on a daily basis. In order to prevent any garden from being descended upon by these animals, it is necessary to incorporate some deterrents. Several common gardening tips to keep deer out of your garden are listed, but conduct some further research to find the best method for you.
Deer are not easily deterred by fences and they are certainly not timid when they are hungry. The hungrier the deer, the larger quantity and wider variety of plants and vegetables it will eat. Deer in one part of the country enjoy delicacies foreign to other parts. There seems to be no catchall solution to deterring deer from the garden, but here are some tips.
Deer love to feast on the vegetables and fruit that humans do, so it is no surprise that they will go directly to these items in the garden. Avoid planting things like corn, lettuce, broccoli, and berries if the desire is to keep deer away. Look online for a list of trees, flowers, vegetables, and fruit that deer enjoy and remove those from your garden's planting list. Even the Christmas tree is not safe, because a deer will enjoy a snack of Frasier fir.
If the gardener is committed to incorporating plants, trees, and fruit that will attract deer, then some repelling tactics must be employed. Spreading things such as fabric softener or human hair around the plants will keep deer from investigating the area. There are also chemicals manufactured specifically for repelling deer, so do some online research or check with a local garden center. Add some plants with thorns to the garden in order to serve as a further preventative.
Things such as flags, lights, and noisemakers will serve as deer deterrents. The use of a sprinkler during prime meal times should also keep deer away, as they do not like to be sprayed with water. Recipes for concoctions using household products such as soap and water are available on the Internet. These may be sprayed on plant and tree leaves and will keep deer from sampling.
If distraction is the preferred method, planting some delectable morsels in a far end of the yard may keep the deer from the area to be preserved. Fencing with tree and thorny branches periodically interspersed should keep deer from jumping into the area. The fence should be at least eight feet high, but deer may still try to jump over if not otherwise diverted.
Following these gardening tips to keep deer out of your garden should yield a munch-free zone for these wandering neighbors. Avoid incorporating plants and vegetables that deer find attractive and try a few deterrent tactics including fencing in the garden, and the deer should wander on their way. This will free every gardener to spend more time planting those prize-winning flowers and vegetables.
